Air-channel structure of paintball gun

ABSTRACT

The present disclosure illustrates an air-channel structure of a paintball gun. The paintball gun has a gun handle and a front handle at a bottom portion of a gun body, a front section and a back section of a pipe are disposed inside the front handle and the gun handle respectively, and a center section of the pipe is extended between the front handle and the gun handle. The high pressure gas of the gas tank can be flowed into an air channel inside the gun body via the pipe. The center section of the pipe and the front handle are located at a front side and bottom side of the trigger for use as a trigger guard.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

1. Field of the Invention

The present disclosure relates to a structure of a paintball gun, more particularly to an air-channel structure of the paintball gun.

2. Description of the Related Art

Please refer to FIG. 7 which shows a traditional paintball gun 9. The paintball gun 9 includes a gun body 91 and a gun handle 92, the gun body 91 is provided with a barrel 93 and a gunlock set 94, and the gun body 91 has an air channel 911 inside, the air channel 911 is provided to input high pressure gas for the gunlock set 94 triggering a paint ball. The gun handle 92 is provided with a triggering set 95 which controls the high pressure gas to enter the air channel 911. The triggering set 95 has a trigger 951 exposed out of the front of the gun handle 92. A trigger guard 96 is disposed around the trigger 951 and a front handle 97 is disposed in front of the trigger 951.

Regarding supply of the high pressure gas, a gas tank 98 is disposed at a bottom portion of the gun handle 92, the gun handle 92 has a channel 921 inside, the trigger guard 96 below the trigger 951 also has a channel 961 inside, the front handle 97 also has a channel 971 inside. Two ends of the pipe 99 are be fixedly connected with the trigger guard 96 and the front handle 97 via connectors 991 and 992 respectively, whereby the high pressure gas within the gas tank 98 can be delivered to the air channel 911 via the pipe 99 communicated between the channel 961 and the channel 971.

However, in the traditional paintball gun 9, the channel 961 is disposed in the structure of the existing trigger guard 96 and the pipe 99 is connected to the trigger guard 96 and the front handle 97 to communicate the channels 961 and 971. The disposal of the pipe 99 inside the trigger guard 96 causes a problem of complicated structure, in addition, the structure of the trigger guard 96 is naturally weak and will be easily damaged due to slight collision if the channel 961 is disposed inside the trigger guard 96. The damage may cause leakage of the high pressure gas. Moreover, the pipe 99 is connected between the trigger guard 96 and the front handle 97 by the connectors 991 and 992 in external connecting manner, there is a problem of inconvenient assembly because the pipe 99 and the connector 991 and 992 must be installed within limited space; in addition, the pipe 99, the connector 991 and 992 between the trigger guard 96 and the front handle 97 are easily loosed or damaged at the connecting portion due to collision, and results in leakage of the gas.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

One of objectives of the present disclosure is to provide an air-channel structure of a paintball gun to solve the above problems. The structure of the paintball gun is simplified, and the problem that the pipe is exposed at the connecting portion between the gun handle and the front handle and may be loosed or damaged due to collision to cause leakage of gas does not exist.

Other objective of the present disclosure is to utilize the pipe as a pipeline for delivering gas and the pipe is designed as the trigger guard for protecting the trigger. Therefore, the paintball gun of the present disclosure is not provided with a flexible tube which is used in traditional low-end paintball gun, and the market value and competition of the paintball gun of the present disclosure can be improved.

The paintball gun includes a gun body, and a gun handle and a front handle. The gun handle and the front handle are disposed at a bottom portion of the gun body. The gun body is provided with a barrel and a gunlock set, the gun body has a first air channel which is provided to input high pressure gas for the gunlock set triggering a paint ball. The gun handle is provided with a triggering set which controls the gunlock set to trigger the paint ball, and the gun handle has an intake valve disposed at a bottom portion thereof and connected with a gas tank containing the high pressure gas. The triggering set has a trigger exposed between the gun handle and the front handle, a trigger guard is disposed around a front side and a bottom side of the trigger. The air-channel structure includes a pipe which includes a front section, a center section and a back section. The front section is located inside the front handle, the back section is located inside the gun handle, and the center section is located at a bottom side of the trigger and extended between the gun handle and the front handle. The pipe has a second air channel inside. Inside the gun handle, an end of the second air channel of the pipe is communicated with the intake valve and the gas tank is connected with the intake valve. Inside the front handle, other end of the second air channel of the pipe is communicated with the first air channel, and the front handle and the center section of the pipe are located at the front side and the bottom side of the trigger to form the trigger guard.

The gun handle has a switch disposed at the intake valve, and the switch is turned on/off to control the high pressure gas inside the gas tank to pass the intake valve.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

The detailed structure, operating principle and effects of the present disclosure will now be described in more details hereinafter with reference to the accompanying drawings that show various embodiments of the present disclosure as follows.

FIG. 1 is a perspective appearance view of a paintball gun of a first embodiment of the present disclosure.

FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view of structure of the paintball gun of the first embodiment of the present disclosure.

FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view of a structure of the pipe of the FIG. 2.

FIG. 4 is a perspective appearance view of a paintball gun of a second embodiment of the present disclosure.

FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view of structure of the paintball gun of the second embodiment of the present disclosure.

FIG. 6 is a perspective appearance view of the pipe of the second embodiment of the present disclosure.

FIG. 7 is a cross-sectional view of structure of traditional paintball gun.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS

Reference will now be made in detail to the exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings. Therefore, it is to be understood that the foregoing is illustrative of exemplary embodiments and is not to be construed as limited to the specific embodiments disclosed, and that modifications to the disclosed exemplary embodiments, as well as other exemplary embodiments, are intended to be included within the scope of the appended claims. These embodiments are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete, and will fully convey the inventive concept to those skilled in the art. The relative proportions and ratios of elements in the drawings may be exaggerated or diminished in size for the sake of clarity and convenience in the drawings, and such arbitrary proportions are only illustrative and not limiting in any way. The same reference numbers are used in the drawings and the description to refer to the same or like parts.

It will be understood that, although the terms ‘first’, ‘second’, ‘third’, etc., may be used herein to describe various elements, these elements should not be limited by these terms. The terms are used only for the purpose of distinguishing one component from another component. Thus, a first element discussed below could be termed a second element without departing from the teachings of embodiments. As used herein, the term “or” includes any and all combinations of one or more of the associated listed items.

Please refer to FIG. 1 through FIG. 6 which show structures of an embodiment of the present disclosure. The structures shown in FIG. 1 through FIG. 6 are taken as examples for illustration, but the present disclosure is not limited thereto.

This embodiment provides an air-channel structure of a paintball gun. As shown in FIG. 1, the paintball gun includes a gun body 1 and a gun handle 2, the gun handle 2 and the front handle 3 are integratedly made by injection molding by plasticity material, and the gun handle 2 and the front handle 3 are disposed at a bottom portion of the gun body 1.

As shown in FIG. 2, the gun body 1 is provided with a barrel 4 and a gunlock set 5, and the gun body 1 has a first air channel 11 inside, the first air channel 11 is provided to input the high pressure gas for the gunlock set 5 triggering the paint ball.

As shown in FIG. 2, the gun handle 2 is provided with a triggering set 6 which controls the gunlock set 5 to trigger the paint ball. The gun handle 2 has an intake valve 7 at the bottom portion thereof, and the intake valve 7 is connected with the gas tank 71 containing the high pressure gas. The triggering set 6 has a trigger 61 exposed between the gun handle 2 and the front handle 3, and a trigger guard is disposed around a front side and a bottom side of the trigger 61.

As shown in FIG. 1 through FIG. 3, the air-channel structure of the paintball gun of this embodiment is provided with a pipe 8 which can be made of metal or plastic material. In this embodiment the pipe 8 is a metal pipe and has a front section 81, a center section 82 and a back section 83. During injection molding of the front handle 3, the front section 81 is disposed at a molding position of the front handle 3, and the back section 83 is disposed at a molding position of the gun handle 2 during injection molding of the gun handle 2, so the front section 81 and the back section 83 are respectively located inside the front handle 3 and the gun handle 2 after the injection molding of the front handle 3 and gun handle 2, and the center section 82 is extended between the gun handle 2 and front handle 3 at the bottom side of the trigger 61. As shown in FIG. 3, the pipe 8 has a second air channel 84. Inside the gun handle 2, an end of the second air channel 84 of the pipe 8 is communicated with the intake valve 7 and the gas tank 71 which is connected with the intake valve. Inside the front handle 3, other end of the second air channel 84 of the pipe 8 is communicated with the first air channel 11, and the front handle 3 and the center section 82 of the pipe 8 are located at the front side and the bottom side of the trigger 61 to form the trigger guard.

In this embodiment, the pipe 8 is hollow and bent. Inside the gun handle 2, the pipe 8 has an intake end 85 extended to the bottom portion of the gun handle 2 and connected the intake valve 7. Inside the front handle 3, the pipe 8 has an outlet end 86 extended to a top of the front handle 3 and connected to the 1 bottom portion of the gun body, the second channel 84 of the pipe 8 is directly communicated between the intake valve 7 and the first air channel 11.

In this embodiment, a metal piece 87 is fixed at the intake end 85 of the pipe 8 and combined at the bottom portion of the gun handle 2, and the intake valve 7 is fixedly connected with the metal piece 87 at the bottom portion of the gun handle 2. Regarding the disposal of the metal piece 87, the gun handle 2 is made of plasticity material, so the intake valve 7 is combined at the bottom portion of the gun handle 2 by a manner of screwing in this embodiment. If the intake valve 7 is directly screwed on the gun handle 2, the problem of bad structural strength exists, so the metal piece 87 is extra added to provide the intake valve to be firmly screwed.

As shown in FIG. 2 and FIG. 3, a switch 72 is disposed at the intake valve 7 in the gun handle 2 of this embodiment, and the switch 72 is turned on/off to control the high pressure gas inside the gas tank 71 to pass the intake valve 7, i.e. when the switch 72 is screwed in to drive displacement of a valve rod 721, a thimble 711 of the gas tank 71 is pushed by the valve rod 721, so the high pressure gas inside the gas tank 71 can be discharged to enter the pipe 8 via the intake end 85. When the switch 72 is screwed out, the valve rod 721 is moved out correspondingly and the thimble 711 of the gas tank 71 will be ejected, so the high pressure gas inside the gas tank 71 cannot pass the intake valve 7 and enter the pipe 8.

According to the aforesaid illustration, the advantages of the present disclosure are obvious.

First, in the paintball gun of the present disclosure, the air-channel structure is combined with the paintball gun for use as the trigger guard, so the trigger guard of the present disclosure has a simpler structure compared with the traditional paintball gun. Two ends of the pipe 8 communicated between the gun handle 2 and the front handle 3 are hidden in the front section 81 and the back section 83 disposed inside the gun handle 2 and the front handle 3, only the center section 82 at bottom side of the trigger guard is exposed. Therefore, the problem that the pipe 99 of the traditional paintball gun is exposed at the connecting portion between the gun handle 92 and the front handle 97 and easily loosed or damaged by collision to cause gas leak does not exist in the paintball gun of the present disclosure.

Secondly, the pipe 8 is used as a pipeline for delivering gas and is designed as the trigger guard for protecting the trigger 61, so the paintball gun of the present disclosure is not provided with a pipe 99 which is used in traditional low-end paintball gun, and the market value and competition of the paintball gun of the present disclosure can be improved.

Naturally, there are many examples embraced by the scope of the present disclosure, and these examples just have different variations in detail. Please refer to FIG. 4 through FIG. 6 which show a second embodiment of the present disclosure. The main differences between the first embodiment and the second embodiment are described in following paragraph.

As shown in FIG. 5, inside the gun handle 2A, the air-channel structure of the paintball gun of the second embodiment has a third air channel 21A which is communicated with the intake valve 7 by a bottom end thereof, and the front handle 3A has a fourth air channel 31A inside, and a top end of the fourth air channel 31A is communicated with the first air channel 11. The pipe 8A is hollow and has a front section 81A, a center section 82A and a back section 83A. At the bottom side of the trigger 61, the back section 83A is connected with the gun handle 2A, the front section 81A is connected with the front handle 3A. The pipe 8A has a second air channel 84A inside, and two ends of the second air channel 84A are sealingly communicated with the third air channel 21A and the fourth air channel 31A, respectively. The front handle 3A and the center section 82A of the pipe 8A are located at the front side and the bottom side of the trigger 61 to form as the trigger guard.

As shown in FIG. 5, the gun handle 2A has a first mounting hole 22A close to the bottom end of the trigger 61, the first mounting hole 22A is disposed along a widthwise direction of the gun handle 2A, and the third air channel 21A is communicated between the first mounting hole 22A and the intake valve 7. The front handle 3A has a second mounting hole 32A at the bottom portion thereof, the second mounting hole 32A is disposed along a widthwise direction of the front handle 3A. The fourth air channel 31A is communicated between the second mounting hole 32A and the first air channel 11. The back section 83A of the pipe 8A is linked with the first mounting hole 22A at the gun handle 2A, and the front section 81A is linked with the second mounting hole 32A at the front handle 3A. The two ends of the second air channel 84A are disposed inside the first mounting hole 22A and the second mounting hole 32A respectively and sealingly communicated with the third air channel 21A and the fourth air channel 31A respectively. In this embodiment, the pipe 8A is a straight pipe, and the first mounting hole 22A is aligned with the second mounting hole 32A, so the two ends of the pipe 8A can be disposed inside the first mounting hole 22A and the second mounting hole 32A.

As shown in FIG. 5 and FIG. 6, the second air channel 84A is passed through the two ends of the pipe 8A along a lengthwise direction of the pipe 8A, and at the two ends of the pipe 8A, two ends of the second air channel 84A are airtightly plugged by plugs 85A, respectively. The pipe 8A have through holes 841A and 842A located at positions communicated with the third air channel 21A and the fourth air channel 31A, and each of through holes 841A and 842A are radially passed through the pipe 8A and communicated with the second air channel 84A. The pipe 8A is provided with seal rings 843A and 844A disposed at two sides of the through holes 841A and 842A respectively, to prevent leakage of high pressure gas. Therefore, sealed communication between the third air channel 21A, fourth air channel 31A and second air channel 84A can be achieved.

The air-channel structure of the paintball gun of the second embodiment can provide the effect equal to the effect of the first embodiment. 

1. An air-channel structure of a paintball gun, the paintball gun comprising a gun body, and a gun handle and a front handle disposed at a bottom portion of the gun body, the gun body provided with a barrel and a gunlock set, the gun body having a first air channel which is provided to input high pressure gas for the gunlock set triggering a paint ball; the gun handle provided with a triggering set which controls the gunlock set to trigger the paint ball, and the gun handle having an intake valve disposed at a bottom portion thereof and connected with a gas tank containing the high pressure gas, the triggering set having a trigger exposed between the gun handle and the front handle, a trigger guard disposed around a front side and a bottom side of the trigger, the air-channel structure comprising: a pipe, comprising a front section, a center section and a back section, the front section located inside the front handle, the back section located inside the gun handle, the center section located at the bottom side of the trigger and extended between the gun handle and the front handle, the pipe having a second air channel, wherein an end of the second air channel of the pipe inside the gun handle is communicated with the intake valve and the gas tank connected with the intake valve, and other end of the second air channel of the pipe inside the front handle is communicated with the first air channel, the front handle and the center section of the pipe are located at the front side and the bottom side of the trigger to form the trigger guard.
 2. The air-channel structure of the paintball gun as defined in claim 1, wherein the pipe is hollow and bent, and inside the gun handle the pipe has an intake end extended to the bottom portion of the gun handle and connected the intake valve, and inside the front handle the pipe has an outlet end extended to a top of the front handle and connected to the bottom portion of the gun body, the second channel of the pipe is directly communicated between the intake valve and the first air channel.
 3. The air-channel structure of the paintball gun as defined in claim 2, wherein the gun handle and the front handle are made of plasticity material, a metal piece is fixed at the intake end of the pipe and combined at the bottom portion of the gun handle, and the intake valve is fixedly connected with the metal piece at the bottom portion of the gun handle.
 4. The air-channel structure of the paintball gun as defined in claim 1, wherein the back section of the pipe is connected with the gun handle at the bottom side of the trigger, and the front section of the pipe is connected with the front handle, the gun handle has a third air channel inside and the bottom end of the gun handle is communicated with the intake valve; the front handle has a fourth air channel inside and a top end of the front handle is communicated with the first air channel, the intake valve and the first air channel are indirectly communicates with each other via the two ends of the second air channel sealingly connected with the third air channel and the fourth air channel.
 5. The air-channel structure of the paintball gun as defined in claim 4, wherein the gun handle has a first mounting hole close to the bottom end of the trigger, the first mounting hole is disposed along a widthwise direction of the gun handle, and the third air channel is communicated between the first mounting hole and the intake valve; the front handle has a second mounting hole at the bottom portion thereof, the second mounting hole is disposed along a widthwise direction of the front handle and aligned with the first mounting hole, the fourth air channel is communicated between the second mounting hole and the first air channel; wherein an end of the pipe is linked with the first mounting hole at the gun handle, and other end of the pipe is linked with the second mounting hole at the front handle, the two ends of the second air channel are disposed inside the first mounting hole and the second mounting hole respectively, and sealingly communicated with the third air channel and the fourth air channel respectively.
 6. The air-channel structure of the paintball gun as defined in claim 5, wherein the second air channel passes through the two ends of the pipe along a lengthwise direction of the pipe, and at the two ends of the pipe, two ends of the second air channel are airtightly plugged by plugs, respectively; wherein the pipe has through holes located at positions communicated with the third air channel and the fourth air channel, and the through holes radially pass through the pipe to communicate with the second air channel.
 7. The air-channel structure of the paintball gun as defined in claim 6, wherein the pipe is provided with seal rings disposed at two sides of through holes respectively, to prevent leakage of the high pressure gas. 